{"id":18023,"date":"2025-03-08T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/virtual-reality-in-solitary-confinement-isnt-a-black-mirror-episode-its-happening-in-california\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T14:37:37","slug":"virtual-reality-in-solitary-confinement-isnt-a-black-mirror-episode-its-happening-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/virtual-reality-in-solitary-confinement-isnt-a-black-mirror-episode-its-happening-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual reality in solitary confinement isn\u2019t a Black Mirror episode. It\u2019s happening in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creative Acts works to get people out of prison with an unlikely tool reporting a 96% reduction in infractions from participants<\/p>\n

One Monday in July, Samantha Tovar, known as Royal, left her 6ft-by-11ft cell for the first time in three weeks. Correctional officers escorted her to the common area of the Central California<\/a> Women\u2019s Facility and chained her hands and feet to a metal table, on top of which sat a virtual reality<\/a> headset. Two and a half years into a five-year prison sentence, Royal was about to see Thailand for the first time.<\/p>\n

When she first put on the headset, Royal immediately had an aerial view of a cove. Soon after, her view switched to a boat moving fairly fast with buildings on either side of the water. In the boat was a man with a backpack, and it was as if she were sitting beside him. With accompanying meditative music and narration, the four-minute scene took Royal across a crowded Thai market, through ancient ruins, on a tuk-tuk (a three-wheeled rickshaw) and into an elephant bath with her backpacked companion. For Royal, these vignettes felt real enough to be deserving of a passport stamp.<\/p>\n

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\nCreative Acts works to get people out of prison with an unlikely tool reporting a 96% reduction in infractions from participants
\nOne Monday in July, Samantha Tovar, known as Royal, left her 6ft-by-11ft cell for the first time in three weeks. Correctional officers escorted her to the common area of the Central California Women\u2019s Facility and chained her hands and feet to a metal table, on top of which sat a virtual reality headset. Two and a half years into a five-year prison sentence, Royal was about to see Thailand for the first time.
\nWhen she first put on the headset, Royal immediately had an aerial view of a cove. Soon after, her view switched to a boat moving fairly fast with buildings on either side of the water. In the boat was a man with a backpack, and it was as if she were sitting beside him. With accompanying meditative music and narration, the four-minute scene took Royal across a crowded Thai market, through ancient ruins, on a tuk-tuk (a three-wheeled rickshaw) and into an elephant bath with her backpacked companion. For Royal, these vignettes felt real enough to be deserving of a passport stamp. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creative Acts works to get people out of prison with an unlikely tool reporting a 96% reduction in infractions from participants One Monday in July, Samantha Tovar, known as Royal, left her 6ft-by-11ft cell for the first time in three weeks. Correctional officers escorted her to the common area of the Central California Women\u2019s Facility …<\/p>\n

Virtual reality in solitary confinement isn\u2019t a Black Mirror episode. It\u2019s happening in California<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}